Major League Baseball adopted some significant rules changes this past season, the biggest by far being the introduction of a pitch clock—an electronic countdown limiting the time between pitches to 15 seconds with nobody on or 20 seconds with a runner on. The changes were aimed at speeding up the game and boosting attendance, and […]
It all began with baseball. I was growing up in the 1940s in Rochester, N.Y., a farm team for the St. Louis Cardinals. I couldn’t get enough of them in the first newspaper I ever read, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The instant it came I grabbed the sports pages, flopped myself down on the […]
Vintage Baseball Forgotten Hollywood I’m Looking Through You 4-17-2022 Kevin Baskin and Manny Pacheco I’m Looking Through You 4-17-2022 Kevin Baskin and Manny Pacheco Vintage Baseball Forgotten Hollywood Vintage Baseball Forgotten Hollywood I’m Looking Through You 4-17-2022 Kevin Baskin and Manny Pacheco Bob Wilson welcomed Kevin Baskin onto I’m Looking Through You. [...]
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No one who frequents the dark auditorium is really an atheist — Edgar Morin, Marxist Movie Critic Orientation Cross-cultural uniqueness of celebrity culture If members of a tribal society during Paleolithic or Neolithic times, or even members of Bronze Age Egypt or Mesopotamia had heard about the United States population’s devotion to celebrities, they wouldn’t […]
Another World Series – the twelfth in a row – without the New York Yankees, the richest franchise in the Major Leagues. The reason for this fall of the once formidable Yankee baseball dynasty is not difficult to discern. It is inept, smug management starting with the 23-year reign of General Manager Brian Cashman, to […]
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Reporters at major newspapers and magazines are hard to reach by telephone. Today it is increasingly hard to converse with them about timely scoops, leads, gaps in coverage, and corrections to published articles. We started an online webpage: Reporter’s Alert. From time to time, we use Reporter’s Alert to present suggestions for important reporting on topics that are […]
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It is too early to say that this is a national-level way of the citizens of the United States calling BS on the Biden / Harris / Fauci / CDC / Globalist “let’s get wimp”-a-thon, but it sure is encouraging. On Friday, the reported number of reported new COVID-19 cases was 254,981. This is the highest […]
Yours truly, at maybe age 6, in Long Island City High School schoolyard Growing up in a working-class, blue-collar neighborhood — long before there was an internet — often left kids like me to our own devices. We found myriad ways to amuse ourselves and also, to play sports. We were troublemakers, sure, but athletes […]
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The so-called ‘cancel culture,’ should it continue on its iron track, will spell the doom of US democracy only to be replaced by something altogether un-American, Robert Bridge writes. Joaquin and Tim discuss his article.
The so-called ‘cancel culture,’ should it continue on its iron track, will spell the doom of US democracy only to be replaced by something altogether un-American, Robert Bridge writes. Joaquin and Tim discuss his article.
